From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 8 13:19:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.223.217.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1709237B479; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6DF944EEF; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:22:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:22:27 -0500 (EST) From: spork@fasttrackmonkey.com To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server-class mobo's In-Reply-To: <200011072319.eA7NJBF33525@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > Tyan are doing this on the S2500 and S2510 boards, which BSDi are > building into our current family of 1U and 2U server systems. > > Note that most of these BIOS-serial designs are of the screen-scraper > variety, so you still need a video card. Ugh. Thanks for the info... "screen-scraper"?? Does this basically mean I'm SOL if I want to twiddle with the Raid card remotely? If so, then I guess it's back to the PC Weasel... I also had a hard time finding any mention of the serial BIOS feature in Tyan's docs. I wonder how many other mobo makers have this feature and don't mention it... Thanks, Charles > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message